Koo Wee Rup Swamp History

This blog is about the history of the Koo Wee Rup Swamp and surrounding areas, including Garfield, and Western Port as well as some of my family history. It's my own original research and writing and if you live in the area you may have read some of the stories before in the Koo Wee Rup Swamp Historical Society newsletter or the Koo Wee Rup township newsletter, The Blackfish, or the Garfield township newsletter, The Spectator. Heather Arnold.

Saturday, May 29, 2021

Rythdale - the origin of the name

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Rythdale is a locality towards the western end of the Koo Wee Rup Swamp. It is a small pocket of land bordered on three sides by Pakenham So...

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Koo Wee Rup Electric Light & Power Company

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The Koo Wee Rup Sun of Thursday, July 21, 1927 reported that one of the outstanding events in the history of Kooweerup took place last Thu...

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Petrol tanker goes up in flames at Vervale - 1967

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This dramatic truck fire occured in early February 1967. The J-Model Bedford was delivering fuel to Aub Goodman's farm on Pitt Road in V...

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Jabez Janes and Maria Ann Goldsmith

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Jabez Janes operated a beer house, on the south side of Cannibal Creek, in what is now North Garfield, from 1866. He had an eventful life wi...

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

A visit to Koo Wee Rup in 1886 - part 1

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In May 1886 The Leader newspaper had a two-part report of a visit to the Koo Wee Rup area. This was before the construction of the Main Dra...

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About Me

Heather: I am a local history enthusiast, the President of the Koo Wee Rup Swamp Historical Society and the Secretary of the South Eastern Historical Association. I was the Local History Librarian at Casey Cardinia Libraries from 2005 until 2021.

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